{"id":211,"date":"2005-04-21T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2006-06-16T15:46:21","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T22:46:21","slug":"part-two-sharing-my-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Part Two: Sharing my load"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first part was hard to get through. I had to stop typing it because remembering those feelings of detatchment from everything around me was actually scaring me today. There are days when I feel the same way I did six years ago and I just have to find a way out of it or I will truly lose.my.mind.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the last part:<\/p>\n<p>July 31, 1998<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know exactly why I am crying and I think that is what makes me cry more.<br \/>\nI know it wont be long before he runs into a woman who is alive, vibrant and finds him appealing to talk to. She&#8217;ll talk to him and he will feel needed again, loved again and desired again and then he goes to her after he comes home to a dirty house, no dinner made, screaming children and a zombie for a wife.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure he is striving to feel alive again also and i&#8217;m not making him feel that way.<\/p>\n<p>So why not do something about it? I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried. I&#8217;m running on NO emotions. I feel like someone has slipped mea drug that allows me enough energy and emotion to get through the day, but not enough to enjoy it or even feel it. A drug that totally numbs the senses, like that feeling you get when you wake up from a deep sleep and you&#8217;re forced to function. You&#8217;re awake, but still numb.<\/p>\n<p>I want to run and hide from what I see happening, I feel like if I even try to fight for &#8216;whatever&#8217; that i&#8217;ll completely snap and that scares me to death. I&#8217;m so afraid of completely loosing everything.<\/p>\n<p>When I get angry, it drains me. Happy, it drains me. All im left with is guilt. I don&#8217;t want to see my husband run to another woman, but everytime he walks out of the room I whisper, &#8220;we aren&#8217;t going to make are we?&#8221; and I am afraid that one day my pillar of strength, my rock, my support is going to turn to me and say, &#8216;no&#8217;. then I will cry and all my emotions will be gone. I wont even be able to fight back. I will just walk away because I know that he can&#8217;t live this way. Why should I punish him into this life of having no feelings simply because I have none.<\/p>\n<p>For better or worse. In sickness and in health.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I am slowly killing myself and I don&#8217;t even care.<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it. That was the part of the worst time in my life. It wasn&#8217;t that long after this journal entry that <a href=\"http:\/\/randomandodd.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/i-was-wrong-im-sorry.html#comments\">I did <\/a>what I thought my husband would do.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said before this opens so many doors for people to judge me and start name calling. I stand by what I said before, if it helps one person&#8230;bring it on.<br \/>\nI had, and sometimes still have, depression. I still struggle everyday with anxiety. Some of the anxiety is over the things I have been through. This time in my life was a walking anxiety attack.<br \/>\nSomeone said I had a good support group. I did, but if you&#8217;re not reaching out for help, you&#8217;re not going to get it.<br \/>\nI reached out of help and I was misunderstood. I was told to &#8216;get out more.&#8217; or &#8216;get a job&#8217;. Dear God couldn&#8217;t they see where I was in my head? Couldn&#8217;t they see that adding ONE more thing that would make me feel more guilty would seriously push me over the edge?<br \/>\nNo, they didn&#8217;t. When you see someone hurting and you can&#8217;t help them you get frustrated. When you say, &#8220;Please, just do this.&#8221; and they don&#8217;t do it and they get worse you just throw your hands up and lash out with, &#8220;IF YOU WOULD JUST LISTEN TO ME YOU WOULDN&#8217;T BE IN THIS SITUATION!&#8221; I frustrated a lot of people, but I wasn&#8217;t listening. I wanted help, but they didn&#8217;t understand. I had questions I needed answers to, but didn&#8217;t know how to ask.<\/p>\n<p>If you know someone that is hurting, confused or depressed. Just listen. Don&#8217;t judge them and don&#8217;t say, &#8220;if you just do this&#8230;&#8221; because what works for you, might not work for them. Just listen to them. Try not to get frustrated. Right now this person needs a friend. Someone they can really just say, &#8220;I feel really ugly on the inside and I need help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m lucky that I came back from this place. I now understand what I need to survive and it&#8217;s the ability to trust myself enough to say to the people that I love, &#8220;Hey, look. I need help.&#8221; and I can trust the people that they will take whatever steps to get me that help.<\/p>\n<p>and now I promise next week will be all about boob hair, Shaunisms, Shea pictures &#038; my mother and her redneck ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first part was hard to get through. I had to stop typing it because remembering those feelings of detatchment from everything around me was actually scaring me today. There are days when I feel the same way I did six years ago and I just have to find a way out of it or I will truly lose.my.mind. So here&#8217;s the last part: July 31, 1998 I don&#8217;t know exactly why I am crying and I think that is what makes me cry more. I know it wont be long before he runs into a woman who is alive, vibrant and finds him appealing to talk to. She&#8217;ll talk to him and he will feel needed again, loved again and desired again and then he goes to her after he comes home to a dirty house, no dinner made, screaming children and a zombie for a wife. I&#8217;m sure he is striving to feel alive again also and i&#8217;m not making him feel that way. So why not do something about it? I can&#8217;t. I&#8217;ve tried. I&#8217;m running on NO emotions. I feel like someone has slipped mea drug that allows me enough energy and emotion to get through the day, but not enough to enjoy it or even feel it. A drug that totally numbs the senses, like that feeling you get when you wake up from a deep sleep and you&#8217;re forced to function. You&#8217;re awake, but still numb. I want to run and hide from what I see happening, I feel like if I even try to fight for &#8216;whatever&#8217; that i&#8217;ll completely snap and that scares me to death. I&#8217;m so afraid of completely loosing everything. When I get angry, it drains me. Happy, it drains me. All im left with is guilt. I don&#8217;t want to see my husband run to another woman, but everytime he walks out of the room I whisper, &#8220;we aren&#8217;t going to make are we?&#8221; and I am afraid that one day my pillar of strength, my rock, my support is going to turn to me and say, &#8216;no&#8217;. then I will cry and all my emotions will be gone. I wont even be able to fight back. I will just walk away because I know that he can&#8217;t live this way. Why should I punish him into this life of having no feelings simply because I have none. For better or worse. In sickness and in health. I feel like I am slowly killing myself and I don&#8217;t even care. And there you have it. That was the part of the worst time in my life. It wasn&#8217;t that long after this journal entry that I did what I thought my husband would do. Like I said before this opens so many doors for people to judge me and start name calling. I stand by what I said before, if it helps one person&#8230;bring it on. I had, and sometimes still have, depression. I still struggle everyday with anxiety. Some of the anxiety is over the things I have been through. This time in my life was a walking anxiety attack. Someone said I had a good support group. I did, but if you&#8217;re not reaching out for help, you&#8217;re not going to get it. I reached out of help and I was misunderstood. I was told to &#8216;get out more.&#8217; or &#8216;get a job&#8217;. Dear God couldn&#8217;t they see where I was in my head? Couldn&#8217;t they see that adding ONE more thing that would make me feel more guilty would seriously push me over the edge? No, they didn&#8217;t. When you see someone hurting and you can&#8217;t help them you get frustrated. When you say, &#8220;Please, just do this.&#8221; and they don&#8217;t do it and they get worse you just throw your hands up and lash out with, &#8220;IF YOU WOULD JUST LISTEN TO ME YOU WOULDN&#8217;T BE IN THIS SITUATION!&#8221; I frustrated a lot of people, but I wasn&#8217;t listening. I wanted help, but they didn&#8217;t understand. I had questions I needed answers to, but didn&#8217;t know how to ask. If you know someone that is hurting, confused or depressed. Just listen. Don&#8217;t judge them and don&#8217;t say, &#8220;if you just do this&#8230;&#8221; because what works for you, might not work for them. Just listen to them. Try not to get frustrated. Right now this person needs a friend. Someone they can really just say, &#8220;I feel really ugly on the inside and I need help.&#8221; I&#8217;m lucky that I came back from this place. I now understand what I need to survive and it&#8217;s the ability to trust myself enough to say to the people that I love, &#8220;Hey, look. I need help.&#8221; and I can trust the people that they will take whatever steps to get me that help. and now I promise next week will be all about boob hair, Shaunisms, Shea pictures &#038; my mother and her redneck ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}